A Millen(n)ial Mix-up. As New Year’s Eve approaches, Wired ponders not only the pervasive confusion about when the new millennium begins but the widespread misspelling of the word millennium. Take for example, the Hilton Millenium in New York City, a spokesperson for which says the use of the single ‘n’ was a deliberate attempt at visibility. Uh-huh. (The writer, searching the Wired News archives, found 11 articles where millennium was spelled at least once with a single ‘n’ in his own publication.) Some versions of the Microsoft Word spellchecker accept both versions. A spokesperson for the company denied that this was a bug, making motions instead in the direction of “captur(ing) cultural nuances in word use.”